Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957)
I. Introduction
- •the second Red Scare
- •demagogue or crusader?
II. McCarthy's career
- •Youth
- •World War II
- •U.S. Senator (1946-1957)
- •1946 campaign
- •speech at Wheeling, WV (Feb. 9, 1950)
- •Chairman of Senate Committee on Government Operations
and of Subcommittee on Investigations (1952-1954)
- •"McCarthyism"
- •McCarthy, the Army, and President Eisenhower (1954)
- •censure (Dec. 1954)
- •the origins of McCarthyism
III. Conclusion
- •What if McCarthy was right?
- •But does it matter?
- •the problem of the demagogue in a democracy